Bloody Monday Season 2 - Pandora's Box 40

Chapter 40

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Title: File 40 King
Top left: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji
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Peter: I hacked into the system at the cell tower for this area and set it to rewrite location data before it sends it out.
Peter: Even if our "pursuer" contacts them, the location data will trick them into going in the opposite direction.
Text: Her pursuit has been discovered!! Hibiki is in danger!!
Peter: We can use him...
Peter: before we take him out.

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Hibiki: Okay. Fujimaru can see where I am from the cell phone's signal. I just have to keep tailing them until "Third-i" captures them.

Hibiki: I won't let them get away...!!
SFX: Grip

Fujimaru: This is Fujimaru.
Fujimaru: I'm sending Mizusawa Hibiki's cell phone location information to "Third-i"!
Fujimaru: Please send an armed team around to cut off and capture the fleeing terrorists!
Kirishima: This is Kirishima. Roger that!

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SFX: Commotion
Chatter: How is Beta Block!?
Chatter: Kshh...This is the 2nd riot squad team!
Chatter: No sign of the terrorists.
Kanou: Don't worry, Fujimaru.
Kanou: Two JSDF platoons have been sent.
Chatter: This is the 3rd JSDF platoon in Alpha Block!
Kanou: And a police riot squad is waiting to ambush them. They won't get away.
Fujimaru: Got it.

Kanou: But can we really trust...
Kanou: that agent calling herself Hibiki?

Kanou: If this is a trap...

Fujimaru: I trust her.

Minami: Fujimaru...

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Fujimaru: She has already abandoned the one thing she believed in.
Fujimaru: She has finally turned on her fate of being used and thrown away like a piece of trash.

Fujimaru: And the only thing I can do for her is trust her.

Fujimaru: Trusting her is the only way I can strengthen the bonds between us. All I can do is believe in her no matter what.
SFX: Clench...

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Minami: ...That's fine.
Minami: You can trust her.
Fujimaru: Minami-san...

Minami: But we can't.
Minami: We can't protect this country without having guaranteed every little thing.

Fujimaru: I know...

Kanou: All of the JSDF main force except for those ordered to track Hino are to head to Area A and capture the fleeing terrorists.
Kanou: But the police riot squad is to head in the opposite direction to Area B and keep watch there.
JSDF: JSDF 1st Platoon, roger that!
Riot Squad: Riot Squad 3rd Team, roger!

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Kanou: It's insurance.
Kanou: ...Forgive me, Fujimaru.

Fujimaru: ...I understand.

Snow White: Pant.
SFX: Running
Snow White: Pant
Snow White: Pant!

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SFX: Fall
Alexei: Snow White!
Snow White: Uuh...
Snow White: Gasp

Snow White: Arthur...I can't keep running. Escape without me.
SFX: Pant
SFX: Pant

SFX: Grab

Alexei: No.
Alexei: I can't leave you behind. We're escaping together!
SFX: Squeeze
Alexei: And we'll get your injuries treated, make our preparations, and complete our mission!

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Snow White: Arthur...If you hadn't saved me, I would have died back there. So...

Alexei: No! You swore you would change the world, Snow White!
Snow White: But...at this rate, we're both going to...

Alexei: There's a small building over there. Let's hide in there.

Peter: ...Tch.

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Peter: One enemy group is headed this way.
Hansel: Didn't you use our pursuer to send them in the opposite direction?

Peter: I tried. But it looks like they have someone who thinks of every possibility.

Hansel: What are we going to do?
Peter: ...It's not like they've found us yet.

Peter: Arthur is headed away at 11 o'clock.
Peter: A lot of "Third-i" men are after him, so it's only a matter of time.

SFX: Smile
Peter: And if he's going to be caught, we might as well take advantage of it, right?

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Snow White: Pant pant...
Snow White: Pant...
Alexei: ...Okay, I've stopped the bleeding.
Alexei: And I've got your broken arm in a splint.

Alexei: I also anesthetized it. We can make a break for it when the enemy passes by us.
Snow White: Thank you...Arthur...

Snow White: I'm so happy...
Snow White: I could accompany you this far in realizing your dream.

Alexei: What are you saying!?
Alexei: This isn't over yet! You're coming with me!

Snow White: Thanks...Arthur...

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Snow White: Tell me, Arthur...
Alexei: What is it?

Snow White: If the reactor had gone critical and we had killed all those people...would the world really have changed for the better?

Alexei: That alone wouldn't change anything.
Snow White: Then what do we have to do to change it?

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Alexei: If we had committed a nuclear terrorist attack at "this time", it would have opened "Pandora's Box". That would have changed the world.
Alexei: But now that I've been cornered like this...
Alexei: I'm sure I have the ability to open the Box. Peter Pan most likely does too.

SFX: Vvv vvv vvv

Peter: Arthur, are you okay?
Alexei: Peter!
Alexei: Are you okay!?

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Peter: Yes, for now.
Peter: It seems "Pandora's Box" is already headed for Japan.

Alexei: Oh! So we just barely made it! Even if we didn't bring the reactor to meltdown.
Peter: Yes, it's reliable information.
Peter: I got from "there".

Alexei: My hope has made it through.

Peter: But an enemy unit is after you. They're heading for you from 2 o'clock!
Peter: You need to head to 5 o'clock to evade them.

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Alexei: Roger that, Peter Pan.
Alexei: If you manage to escape too, open "Pandora's Box" according to "the plan".
Peter: Okay.
Peter: Good luck.
Alexei: Let's go, Snow White.
Alexei: Can you walk with me?
SFX: Dramatic action
Snow White: Yes, of course, King Arthur!

Snow White: But I have one request first.
Alexei: What is it?

Snow White: Can you hold me and kiss me?
Snow White: Just this once?

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Alexei: ...Snow White.

Snow White: I'll stay with you...
Snow White: no matter where you take me.

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Peter: Ok.

Peter: Now all of the pursuers will head after King Arthur.
Peter: Let's get going.

Small text in top of bubble: Heh heh
Hansel: Oh...
Hansel: Poor King Arthur.
Hansel: He's such a conceited king.

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Peter: To get this far...
Peter: we needed the information he was hiding. But not anymore.

Peter: And his way of doing things simply took too much time and effort.
Peter: Opening "Pandora's Box" and ridding the earth of all of the "large nations" may have changed the world, but it's easy enough to change the world without going that far.

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Peter: After all...
Peter: we have the two of us and "Cinderella".

SFX: Whistle

Hansel: So?
Hansel: Are you sure we can get the money?
SFX: Walking
Peter: Of course.

Peter: We'll get it in a completely untraceable manner and it will be split into the most powerful currencies in the world including the dollar and the euro.
Peter: A test to prove the method works is already being carried out...
Peter: by a woman named Orihara Maya.

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Hansel: How much are you going to ask for...
Hansel: from the governments of the world?

Peter: Two trillion dollars. Which is about 180 trillion yen.
Peter: Pretty cheap, right?

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Peter: Considering the alternative is a continuous rain of nuclear fire across the world.
Text: A terrorist with no ideal driving him is taking control!!
Bottom: To be continued in Issue 41